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A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle was raised on previous Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, coupled with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy abundant with historical depth. The Cherokee are a very pleased, early civilization. For more than 100 years they presumed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th hundred years, some of their leaders presumed it was essential to adapt to European ways in order to endure. Those chiefs sealed the fate with their tribes in 1875 when they agreed upon a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of riches and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation within an exodus that the Cherokee will permanently remember as the "trail where they cried". John McDonough narrates with thoughtful gravity. The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee glow through this complex history of American politics, ambition, and greed.
